AGP 1x video cards?

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Joel Konkle-Parker

I'm in desperate need of an AGP1x (or compatible) video card, and I
don't know where to start looking. A couple years ago I invertantly put
a 4x card in my 1x slot, and now it's dead. Does anyone know of any
1x-compatible cards out there, or of something that can help me find one?

- Joel
 
Joel Konkle-Parker said:
I'm in desperate need of an AGP1x (or compatible) video card, and I
don't know where to start looking. A couple years ago I invertantly put
a 4x card in my 1x slot, and now it's dead. Does anyone know of any
1x-compatible cards out there, or of something that can help me find one?

- Joel
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That's odd, something must have been wrong with the card to begin with since
most videocards are backwards compatible with earlier AGP standards.
 
Sorry, thats not true at all - The old 1x agp was 5v and now agp is 3.3v (
something like that ) and if you put an old card in, or mismatch them you
can blow them up....

However, little known is that usually agp 1x was a different connector - yes
there were 2 agp connectors, but the original one is indeed rare, so this
will add extra complication!

Try ebay...
 
Hi there,
I believed you are talking about AGP Specification 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0 and
not the AGP speed. As chuck has said, there shouldnt be any problems using
later AGP Specification Video Card on older AGP slot, as they are backwards
compatible. Check out this page :
http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html

P.S. Though, there is some reports of incompatiblilty using later AGP
Specification Video Card on older motherboard, but it is a matter of getting
the video card to work or not in the first place and not damaging it.
 
Joel Konkle-Parker said:
I'm in desperate need of an AGP1x (or compatible) video card, and I
don't know where to start looking. A couple years ago I invertantly put
a 4x card in my 1x slot, and now it's dead. Does anyone know of any
1x-compatible cards out there, or of something that can help me find one?

- Joel
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If youre looking for a newish card for the system, you should use PCI and
get about a GeForce1 or TnT2
 
Dan said:
However, little known is that usually agp 1x was a different connector - yes
there were 2 agp connectors, but the original one is indeed rare, so this
will add extra complication!
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Were all AGP 1x the same (old) connector? Or were there 2 kinds of AGP
1x connectors? My motherboard specs from Gateway say AGP 1x (not 1.0),
but I had no trouble fitting a 4x into it.

- Joel
 
If it ran for 2 years it wasn't AGP 1x that killed it. But are you
_sure_ it's 1x and not 1.0? What motherboard are you using?
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It would have to be 1.0, there were no official 1x AGP boards. The
first one with AGP, the 440LX chipset, supported 1x and 2x.

-Slash
 
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